Blauer Hase asked four artists to produce an artwork that had to be installed behind the four small doors of Palazzo Carminati’s atelier 7.

The rules of Rodeo #1 are:
-The external surface of the doors cannot be modified in any way
-The doors must be locked for the duration of the exhibition
-No solid or liquid material can be introduced in the atelier 7 by the artists, for the duration of the exhibition

Andrea De Stefani presents Flyby (One room, 21 flies, a boy fascinated by non-euclidean geometries): “During an indetermined period of time I will free 21 flies in a locked room. I will observe their trajectories, their movements, their approach to space from a close distance. It will be possible to observe the situation trough the keyhole in the door which defines the space where the events will take place.

Mary Flower places a voice behind a door. It is her voice, that reads – in italian – a description of the room where the viewer is standing. This description runs in loop around the walls of the empty space.

Grégoire Motte and Eléonore Saintagnan’s work has two protagonists, Tabac des Iles and Julie Passion. They leave their hometowns, Lille and Paris, for their first encounter in Venice.

Elisa Strinna: " There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked; and when Alice had been all the way down one side and up the other, trying every door, she walked sadly down the middle, wondering how she was ever to get out again".
from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” Lewis Carroll, 1865.

Hide & Seek is an exhibition that places itself outside, beyond the limit of the display space – which remains empty. The rules make necessary, for the viewer, evidential modalities of experiencing the artworks:
waiting
eavesdropping
smelling
breaching.